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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE] [i]First Listen: Jay-Z’s “4:44,” an Album of Love and Wealth[/i] In “The Story of O. J.,” Jay gives us his sort of morality tale, using the example of O. J. Simpson, who famously said that his success had made him raceless. “Still nigga, still nigga,” Jay-Z says, pointing his finger at the sort of archetypal, upwardly mobile black person who forgets where he comes from when he reaches the top. The video that accompanies the song alters its tone. A cartoon Jay-Z, made to look like a Sambo-era, animalized pickaninny, traipses through Brooklyn. [b]The black people around him suffer their historical torments—cotton-picking, then segregation, then red-lining.[/b] He is lynched. Now an angel in the sky, he takes up guardianship of his home town, showering the black inhabitants with dollars and coins, as if to say, in his heavenly America, wealth would be weather. [/QUOTE] http://www.newyorker.com/sections/culture/first-listen-jay-zs-444-an-album-of-love-and-wealth [/QB][/QUOTE]
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